Automatic car-fender with brake-attachment.



No. 738,900. PATENTED SEPT. 15, 1903.

W. K. GIVEN.

AUTOMATIC GAR FENDER. WITH BRAKE ATTACHMENT.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 2. 1903,

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented September 15, 1903 WILLIAM K. GIVEN, OFPITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

AUTOMATlC-CAR-FEN'DER WITH BRAKE ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 738,900, datedSeptember 15, 1903. Application filed January 2,1903. Serial No.137,430. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM K. GIVEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in AutomaticOar-Fenders with Brake Attachment, of which improvement the following isa specification.

My invention relates to an improved automatic-operated car-fender withbrake attachment; and it consists in the certain details of constructionand combination of parts,as will be fully described hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portionof an ordinary street-car, showing my improved fender with brake attachment,the same being constructed and arranged in accordance with myinvention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same having the ear-body removedtherefrom.

To put my invention into practice with a street-railway car 1 or otherVehicle mounted in the usual manner upon trucks 2 and equipped withbrakes 17, operated by electrical power in a manner well known in theart, I arrange at the front of the car a tubular L-shaped frame 6,hinged to suitable brackets 4, attached beneath the floor of theplatform 3. This frame is covered with lattice-strips and is fitted withrollers 6 at the front, which engage with the track when the fender isdown. Attached at a point near the center of the top of the fender-frame5 is a rearwardly-extending arm 7, fitted with a spring 8, bearingagainst the car-body and adapted to keep the fender in its normalposition a short distance above the track. Placed at the rear end ofthis arm 7 is a spring-actuated catch 7, which when the fender is downthe said catch will engage with the said arm connected by a rod 12 to acrank 15, operating a small controller 13, and the said controller bymeans of conductor 14 connected to the brake mechanism 17, the saidmechanism being of any well-known type now in common use. These wires14:, connecting the brake-controller 13, are in circuit with thecontroller 18, operating the motive power of the car 1 in a manner thatwhen the fender 5 is moved back by reason of coming in contact with anobject on the track will break the circuit to the said controller 18,thereby shutting off the power and also applying the brakes.

In operation the fender 5 is at its normal position, (shown at Fig. 1 ofthe drawings,) and should the same be brought in contact with any objecton the track the said fender will move back and occupy a position suchas shown in dotted lines on the said figure and locked in this positionby the spring-actuated pawl 7. This movement of the fender 5 istransmitted, by means of the levers and connecting-rods, to thecontroller 13 to apply the brakes and also break the circuit to thepowercontroller 18.

Various slight modifications and changes may be made in the details ofconstruction, such as placing the fender end mechanism entirely beneaththe car-body, or the fender may be extended upward along the dashboard,or the lower portion of the fender may be made to move in and outifobjections are made to that portion projecting beyond the front of thecar, these and other modified forms to suit varying conditions withoutdeparting from the spirit of the invention. Therefore I do not limitmyself to those shown and described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

In a device of the character described the combination with a car-body,of a fender pivotally secured thereto, a spring-pressed lever secured toand normally holding the fender in a slight-ly elevated position,locking means for securing the fender in a lowered position, a brakecontroller, means for operating the same, upon movement of the fender,said means comprising a supporting-bracket, a pivoted lever carried bysaid bracket, connecting means between said lever and fender, signed myname in the presence of two sub a crank pivotally connected to the outerend scribing witnesses.

of the lever and to the brake-controller and a means connected to thesaid controller for WILLIAM GIVEN 5 breaking the circuit of apower-controller, In presence of JOHN M. RALSTON,

substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto M. E. HARRISON.

